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Allison Kingsley appears to be capitalizing on popular subjects with Mind Over Murder, the first in the Raven's Nest Bookstore mystery series. It has a paranormal element, a bookstore as the setting, and a protagonist who returns home to a small town while keeping secrets about her life in New York City.
Stephanie Quinn Dowd owns the Raven's Nest Bookstore in Finn's Harbor, Maine. When her cousin, Clara, returns home, she convinces her to manage the bookstore for her. Stephanie hopes to rekindle the excitement and spirit of adventure the two shared when they were kids. She didn't expect it to be rekindled by a murder in her storeroom.
Anyone could have murdered Ana Jordan. She wasn't the most popular store owner in town. But, she had accused Stephanie and her staff of poisoning young minds with the occult books that were part of the selection in the store. And, Stephanie's employee, Molly, had a fight with her on the sidewalk the day Ana was killed. With Ana dead and Molly the primary suspect, Stephanie turns to Clara, asking her to use the "Quinn Sense," the ability to sense danger, tell if people are lying, and interpret dreams, to find the killer. Clara is reluctant, but Stephanie drags her into her plans.
Clara knew "They were amateurs, messing in business best left for the police." But Stephanie is an unstoppable force. And, the two women are caught up in something that could turn deadly.
Unfortunately, there are times this mystery is a little deadly. As much as I wanted to like it, it was slow going at times, with too much conversation, and little action. Clara, supposedly the heroine, is easily manipulated, by Stephanie, by her mother, by almost everyone she runs into. And, as a wife and mother, Stephanie should know better than to push Clara into a dangerous investigation.
I was so hopeful that Mind Over Murder would be the first in an intriguing new series involving a bookstore. It didn't win me over, but, if you've read and enjoyed it, I hope you take the time to comment. I'm sure other readers might enjoy this small town mystery with two cousins that care about each other.
Mind Over Murder by Allison Kingsley. Berkley Prime Crime. ©2011. ISBN 9780425243770 (paperback), 262p.
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You're right, you can't have too many of these recipes! Thank you for sharing one!
Stephanie, I like that the ingredient list is not long. This is right up my alley and perfect! . I love slow-cooked meal especially in the winter.
I am fairly new to following your blog (but have already tried some different recipes - thanks!!) and was wondering if people ever suggest/give slow cooker recipes to you. After following a couple of your strands I think that I have 2 that you may like. If yes, how would you prefer them?
Hi Emily,
I love new recipes, thank you! You can email me, or post it on the forums.
your choice.
We love pot roast in the winter months and this recipes looks both easy and delicious. Going to have to give it a try
This is so crazy, tonight I made pot roast and I threw in carrots, onion powder, beef broth, spicy brown mustard and chili sauce. Very sweet and savory and we had mashed potaotes as well!! I guess great minds think alike!!!
Sounds delicious. If only I could find a way to do a vegetarian pot roast. Some day I'll figure it out. Thanks!
Oh good!! I bought a roast at the store yesterday and knew I'd find a good recipe here. I thought I'd have to search a bit, but this was perfect timing. Thanks!
I'm heading downstairs to pull out the roast from the freezer! This looks great and it will probably be tomorrows dinner! Thanks!
I have to thank you for this project AND this blog. It is sheer and utter brilliance. I am choosing to devote 2011 to living more simply and will most certainly be cooking from here to help my cause! Thank you.
This is the next recipe that I will be trying... Or will it be that delicious sounding chocolate dessert??? Who knows! I updated my blog tonight and thought you might want to know!
-Kristin in VA Beach-
I get your e-mails of your posts, and it looked like it read 64 pounds beef rump or chuck roast.
LOL! That's LOTS of meat! I checked here, and see how the servings and the pounds ran together!
This looks like a great one to try (with 4 lbs of beef!)
I love this site and often refer to it when looking for something to make for dinner using the crockpot. Thank you for much for keeping us informed of all these great recipes.
Cheers to you and your family for a wonderful holiday,
Dana Morrison, Austin-TX
You can never have too many! Sounds delicious :)
I made this tonight. It was really tasty. Thanks for sharing!!!
NICE : ) Copied, printed, and shared on my blog!
I made this yesterday and it was awesome! I am not usually a fan of pot roast because when my mother made it the meat was always dry. I had a busy day at work so it was great to come home to an already made dinner.
Appreciate all the hard work you put into the recipes and this site!! Have found wonderful recipes here!!! As one who has to eat gluten free, I really appreciate all you do1!!! Keep up the great job!!!!
Karen S.
I made this tonight and I really liked it. Hadn't used my slow cooker in awhile and now I want to use it more!
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What is the Wyatt Exploration Program?
They Wyatt Exploration Program is specialized program that will provide a unique and exciting opportunity for students and faculty to join together in the intellectual exploration of the human past. Organized by the Department of History with financial support from the Wyatt Endowment, the program focuses on the history and culture of a specific place or on a particular historical topic. This theme will change on an annual basis, allowing our explorations to span the history of our country and the world beyond. The department's Wyatt Fellow, a faculty member who is an expert in the field under exploration, will plan and organize the program. Featuring affiliated course offerings, special extra-curricular events on campus, and a competition to participate in a university-funded student travel expedition, the Wyatt Exploration Program will enrich and deepen our understand of the world and its history.
Where can I find information about Wyatt events?
Information can be found at the History Department office, department bulletin board, or website. We do also have a Wyatt Exploration Program facebook and Department of History facebook, which will have information about any upcoming events.
Wyat are the Wyatt Exploration Passports for?
The Wyatt Exploration Passports are how you collect stamps from each event you attend. The number of stamps that you have collected is then reviewed as part of the application process for the Travel Expedition.
Who can take part in Wyatt events?
Anyone and everyone is welcome to take part in the Wyatt events that are held on and off campus. History majors and minors are the only ones that are eligable to apply for the Travel Expeditions.
Can I still apply for the travel expedition if I graduate in December?
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Last night a friend of mine tagged me in a photo on Facebook. I was making dinner so the alert came on my iPhone which was at my side as I prepped chicken with spuds and vegetables. I was having a glass of wine and I was so happy to be finally cooking this week. I don't think I cooked since Monday.
I thought it might be spammy. I thought, "Why is Caroline tagging me in a photo on FB?" Caroline and I have known each other for quite some time. I think we met when I was a reporter at PBN, which was during the mid 1990s. THAT long ago! We would run into each other, especially when I was attempting a PR career in Downtown Honolulu, and at other places. She's someone I always like to see, but the Venn diagram of our lives doesn't mesh that often.
But now she's practically family!!!
Caroline tagged me in a photo of the cat who had stolen my heart, but with whom I had to break up with, a few weeks ago. We called him Gus, and we called him Mr. Cuddles, but one of my other friends, Aleisha, who is a veterinarian at the Hawaiian Humane Society (HHS), got her crew sleuthing, researched his chip and determined he was dubbed Ian in 2004. We kept Ian at home for about a month, but our other cats, Comet and his sister Kitty Girl, would have none of it. We had to do something or the disruption would be irreparable. I was at work when John called me to say he and the girls were taking him to HHS. I cried a little in my cube, but I had to keep it to myself.
Later that evening, when John got home from work, I told him that if he doesn't get adopted and was destined for the oven, that we had to go back and get him and make him our indoor cat while Comet and Kitty Girl were forever-in-our-garage cats. Those two are free-range kitties, anyway. They just wouldn't get to eat inside, which is all they pretty much do.
As much as I secretly wanted to go and get him and tell John it was the only option, I resisted. And Aleisha reassured me.
"Just so you know how we work, there isn't usually an 11th hour for our animals in adoptions. Once we make them available for adoption they are there as long as it takes, she wrote me in a message on FB. "The only hindrance to that is sometimes they become ill or show some aggression and that may change things but barring any complications they are there until they get adopted."
So what do you think of THAT? My faith in HHS has been restored. Let me implore those of you who have pets to get them microchipped, and when you move or change your phone number, update HHS with your new information so you can be reunited with your lost family member. It is the RIGHT thing to do!
Back to Caroline and Ian. On HHS's Facebook page, they posted a photo of Ian and it got 78 LIKES! Well, of course it did! My heart sank seeing him in that collar, looking off screen. Would he be alright?
I blogged about him here and here, and I also shared about him a few times on Facebook. Then when Aleisha told me they were moving him out to the Hawaii Kai Petco for their adoption program, I was hopeful. However, I was also dreading it a little. John and I agreed not to tell the girls he was there. Last night, after news of his adoption made us rejoice, I told the girls he had been right in our 'hood all week. I didn't tell them, but I also didn't say don't go into Petco. It was one of their stops when they go to Koko Marina for sushi or Jamba Juice. Kid1 gave me a hard time. But I told her, if you were to see him in that cage, you would have cried.
I'd like to think that my writing compels people to action. At work, I write about using the right codes when filing claims insurance documents. On my blog, I try to inspire people to live healthy, cook interesting meals, and contemplate the current events in our universe. And when I wrote about Ian, I really wanted to inspire someone to consider taking in an 8-year-old gentleman cat who was perfect in so many ways.
Ian's story has a happy ending. When she posted his photo on FB Caroline wrote, "It's been over a year since we said goodbye to our sweet Cat. Today we welcomed the newest member of our family…Ian, an 8-year-old grey and white tabby who was looking for a home. Paula, the minute that you posted his photo, we just had to have him. He will be loved!"
I look forward to seeing photos of a happy Ian with his new family and his new kid brother, Caroline's son. It will be the best thing ever! Here's to Ian's happy ending, now that he's shy a couple of those nine lives.
We love you, Mr. Cuddles!


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Absence Of Conditions On TV Station Sale Could Trigger Massive Blackout, Resulting In The Loss Of ABC, NBC And FOX All At Once On New Year's Day 2012
PITTSBURGH, April 8, 2011 – The American Cable Association is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to prevent the possibility of a massive TV signal blackout in the Topeka, Kansas, market very early next year by disallowing the local ABC affiliate from jointly negotiating retransmission consent with any other station in the market.
"Come the end of the year when carriage contracts are set to expire, several ACA members serving thousands of Topeka consumers could lose access to the ABC, NBC and FOX stations all at once,
if the FCC permits these economically dominant stations to act as a triopoly in negotiating retransmission consent," ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka said. "With the loss of three Big Four stations an unacceptable business risk, ACA members would be forced to bow to the Topeka triopoly's `blackout or blackmail' strategy and would end up paying much higher fees for retransmission consent than if they had been able to negotiate with each station separately."
At issue is the sale of Topeka's ABC affiliate, KTKA, to PBC Broadcasting, a transaction that requires FCC approval and recognition that it would serve the public interest. In March, ACA asked the FCC either to deny the transaction or allow it to go through with the proviso that KTKA would be prohibited from teaming up with another Topeka station to negotiate retransmission consent with local pay-TV providers.
ACA is flagging this problematic transaction because Topeka's NBC and FOX affiliates are commonly owned by New Vision Television. New Vision has created virtual TV station duopolies
with PBC in the Youngstown, Ohio, and Savannah, Georgia, markets. ACA is highly confident that following the sale of KTKA, PBC and New Vision have every intention of creating an unprecedented virtual triopoly to negotiate retransmission consent for three of the Topeka's Big Four stations.
ACA's confidence level only increased after PBC recently disclosed to the FCC that it already has a local marketing agreement (LMA) with KTKA's current owner, Free State Communications, and a shared services agreement with a New Vision company, suggesting that New Vision is already operating KTKA.
The loss of three Big Four stations in a flash would inflict severe economic harm on the 13 ACA members in the Topeka market, who combined provide service to about 30,000 Topeka households. Five small cable providers in Topeka filed declarations with the FCC in support of ACA's petition to deny or condition the KTKA sale. All five have a KTKA retransmission consent agreement that expires on Dec. 31, 2011, and all five would likely be the first ones to feel the sting of the newly fashioned PBC-New Vision triopoly.
"Who will pay the price for media consolidation run amok in Topeka? The cable consumer, of course," Polka said. "Three local TV stations regulated by the FCC and given free spectrum by the taxpayers should not be allowed to exercise monopoly power for the purpose of engaging in blatant price gouging of consumers."
ACA filed its original petition (available here) to deny or condition the KTKA sale on March 16. In a filing with the FCC yesterday, ACA said the agency should disregard PBC's argument that concerns with the KTKA sale must be set aside because the issue of joint negotiation of retransmission consent is already being considered in the FCC's retransmission consent rulemaking adopted 13 days before ACA filed its petition to deny or condition the KTKA sale.
ACA said PBC's argument is patently false in that the FCC imposed a program access condition on Comcast Corp.'s acquisition of Adelphia cable systems in 2006 while a parallel rulemaking was ongoing. ACA also pointed out that the FCC did a similar thing in 2008 to address the potential harm arising from the transfer of control of DIRECTV from News Corp. to Liberty Media.
About the American Cable Association
Based in Pittsburgh, the American Cable Association is a trade organization representing nearly 900 smaller and medium-sized, independent cable companies who provide broadband services for more than 7.6 million cable subscribers primarily located in rural and smaller suburban markets across America. Through active participation in the regulatory and legislative process in Washington, D.C., ACA's members work together to advance the interests of their customers and ensure the future competitiveness and viability of their business. For more information, visit https://acaconnects.org/


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The Supreme Court refused to step into the emotionally charged debate over embryonic stem cell research Monday, declining to hear a case that sought to stop government funding on ethical grounds.
The decision leaves in place President Obama's 2009 executive order expanding research on stem cells taken from human embryos, which many scientists say has the potential to produce breakthroughs in treatment of numerous conditions, particularly spinal cord injuries, diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
Obama reasoned that research on stem cell lines from embryos created through in vitro fertilization was not ethically problematic. Congress banned the creation or destruction of embryos for research purposes in 1996.
A federal court in Washington, D.C., issued an injunction temporarily blocking the order in August 2010 after two scientists opposed to all embryonic stem cell research, James Sherley of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute and Theresa Deisher of Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, sued on behalf of "plaintiff embryos," contending that Congress had forbidden any research whatsoever on embryonic stem cells.
Since then, federal courts have rejected their contention that the failure of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services to respond to their arguments rendered Obama's policy illegal.
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The Supreme Court made no comment Monday in its one-sentence order rejecting the scientists' appeal.
Embryonic stem cells have been the focus of fierce debate since the mid-1990s. Many scientists see them as a watershed in the treatment of serious ailments because they have the potential to grow into any of the body's cell types, promising the eventual generation of replacement nerve lines and vital organs, including the brain and the heart.
But anti-abortion activists vigorously oppose the research because the cells come from human embryos and days-old human fetuses, which they contend are fully human. Many of them, including Sherley, want to limit research to stem cells derived from adult tissue, which most researchers contend have less potential to transform into other types of cells.
Steven Aden, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal center that helped litigate the case, criticized the decision Monday, saying the 1996 law "is clear, and we had hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would uphold its clear intent."
"Americans should not be forced to pay for experiments that destroy human life, have produced no real-world treatments and violate federal law — especially in burdened fiscal times like these," he said.
The Department of Health and Human Services, whose secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, was the named defendant, had no immediate reaction.
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This election has seen its fair share of tax rhetoric. From Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accusing Mitt Romney of not paying any taxes for over a decade to MSNBC contributor Joan Walsh insinuating that Ann Romneythrew a "tantrum" over her husband's tax returns, the Romneys have been the target of the political left seeking to use class warfare as a political cudgel. Endless ads and news segments by some in the media obsess over Mitt's rate of taxation, complaining that he doesn't pay what's fair.
Well,in today's Washington Times' Water Cooler blog, Media Research Center/NewsBustesr alumna Kerry Picket noted that "The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore has just come out with a new book titled Who's the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in Americain which he reveals some interesting information about how much the top ten percent of income earners in the United States pay in federal income taxes as opposed to any other industrialized nation in the world. According to Moore, these earners pay almost half (45 percent) of the country's total taxes:
the United States is actually more dependent on rich people to pay taxes than even many of the more socialized economies of Europe. According to the Tax Foundation, the United States gets 45 percent of its total taxes from the top 10 percent of tax filers, whereas the international average in industrialized nations is 32 percent. America's rich carry a larger share of the tax burden than do the rich in Belgium (25 percent), Germany (31 percent), France (28 percent), and even Sweden (27 percent).
Yes, Moore is a political conservative, but that doesn't change the fact that what he's found is telling. The wealthy in America pay more as a share of U.S. federal tax revenue than their European counterparts pay as a share of their respective countries' national tax revenues.


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|About Jinyun
| Jinyun County, dating back to the year 696 (the Tang Dynasty) with an area of 1503 square km and a population of 444,000, consists of 8 towns, 8 townships and 2 rural administrative offices, with 642 administrative villages in their charge. Located in the north of Lishui Prefecture, which is in central and southern Zhejiang Province, Jinyun is surrounded by Xianju and Yongjia on the east, Qingtian on the south, Liandu and Wuyi on the west and Yongkang and Pan'an on the north. With its developed transportation network of highway, freeway and railway, Jinyun is easy and convenient to travel to from all directions, which makes it possible for Jinyun to develop its economy and society in a preferable way.
In addition to its advantages in location and transportation, Jinyun has its own characteristics. Jinyun Duck, dating back to over 300 years ago, has advantages over other types of ducks in growing period, egg producing, feed saving and virus fighting. Since the 1980s, the beginning of reform and opening up, Jinyun Duck farming has been fast developing in some developed areas such as Shanghai and Guangdong, which has brought great fame to Jinyun Duck. Hence, Jinyun was awarded with the title of "China Duck Town" by the State Council in 1997.
Jinyun is also famous for its long history of more than 1,300 years and natural scenery. Dating from the Tang Dynasty, Wuyunzhen, the capital town of Jinyun, is typical of its stone streets, stone bridges and stone houses, which gets Wuyunzhen its name "Stone Town" . Besides, more than 200 films were set in Xiandu Scenic Spot in Jinyun for its beautiful natural scenery----unique stones of Huangshan Mountain's, gorgeous mountains like Huashan Mountain and clear green water like that in Guilin, which deserves the titles of National Key Place of Interest of 4 A level, National Photographing Base and Provincial Top Ten Resort. Dinghu Peak is the heart of Xiandu resort, which is a170.8-meter-tall stalagmite mountain in the shape of a huge bamboo shoot and known as "No 1 Stalagmite Stone " in the world. And Huangdi, who was said to have searched for medicine for immortal life in Jinyun and is respected and honored as the first grandfather of the Chinese Han Nationality, has played an important part in the communication with North China, where Huangdi was said to have passed away. And the Huangdi Temple is the symbol of Huandi Culture, where ceremonies of honoring Huangdi are held every year.And Heyang Village, built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the best preserved of its kind in Jinyun, is also an attractive place for tourists. Besides its beautiful natural scenery, Jinyun is well known for its eco-tourism, which has won Jinyun the title of "China Best Eco-Tourism County" based on its top quality of eco-environment in which Jinyun comes the 37th out of the 2348 counties all over China and the 14th out of all the counties in Zhejiang Province, an important part of "Zhejiang Green Valley", which is an area of eco-environment in Zhejiang.
Jinyun is especially rich in natural resources like minerals and water resources. More than 0.13 billion tons of zeolite has been explored, which makes it the largest amount of zeolite in our country. And the unique way of making use of water resources by building water power stations at different levels has won its technique training base for small water power stations in Asian-Pacific areas designated by the UN.
Jinyun has attached even greater importance to education, which makes it a good example for the counties around to follow in hard work and scientific teaching methods. People in all walks of life in Jinyun , especially the parents of students, put education in the first place of all, which was praised by former vice premier Li Lanqing.
Guided by the CPC's Scientific Outlook on Development----develop our country scientifically and harmoniously and the polices at provincial and city levels, Jinyun has made great progress in the development of economy and society, aiming to develop Jinyun in a harmonious , vigorous, creative and open-minded way, which is certain to change Jinyun into a powerful and developed county from all aspects. The figures below show how fast Jinyun is developing. The GDP of Jinyun reached 6.726 billion yuan, 16.5% more thanthat of 2006 with per capita GDP reaching 2,000 dollars. In 2007, the gross output value of industry in Jinyun was 14.405 billion yuan, 30.5% more than that in 2006. And the gross output value of agriculture in Jinyun was 0.948 billion yuan, 7% more than that in 2006. The financial revenue of 2007 in Jinyun was 0.784 billion yuan, 30.6% more than that in 2006,including local financial revenue of 0,384 billion yuan, 34.8% more than that in 2006. Urban residents' per capita annual income was 16,251 yuan, 15.3% more than that in 2006. Rural residents' per capita annual income was 4,533 yuan, 10.9% more than that in 2006. In the first half of 2008, the GDP of Jinyun was 3.57 billion yuan, 13.9% more than that in the same period in 2007. In the first three quarters, the gross output value of industry in Jinyun was 14.36 billion yuan, 38.8% more than that in the same period of 2006 and the financial revenue was 0.69 billion yuan, 16% more than that in the same period of 2007, including local financial revenue of 0.32 billion yuan, 11.6% more than that in the same period of 2007. And urban residents' per capita income in this period was 13,700 yuan, 12.5% more than that in the same period of 2007, while rural residents' per capita income was 4,692 yuan , 16.4% more than that in the same period of 2007.


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This HowTo describes OmegaT's functions for automatic match propagation and one-to-many matching.
By default, OmegaT uses automatic match propagation. This means that as soon as a segment is translated, the same translation is automatically inserted into all identical segments. If a segment has already been translated and an identical segment later on in the text is then changed, the earlier segment will be brought into line with the changed segment. Segments which occur more than once are described in OmegaT as "non-unique segments".
Selecting View > Mark Non-Unique Segments causes only the first instance of a non-unique segment to be displayed in black, and second and subsequent instances to be displayed in grey. This is useful when a translation is being checked, since only the first instance of identical segments may need to be checked. The user can therefore see immediately that a segment in grey, rather than black, has already been checked. (If Options > View > "Include the first non-unique segment when marking non-unique segments" is selected, all non-unique segments including the first are marked in this way.)
You can disable the auto-propagation function with Project > Properties > uncheck the "Auto-propagation of Translations" box. This has the effect of making all instances of non-unique segments alternative translations (see "One-to-many matching" below).
In most cases, the translator will wish to translate identical segments within a project in the same way. For cases where two or more identical segments require different translations, OmegaT offers "one-to-many matching".
OmegaT's one-to-many matching function first assumes that identical segments are to be translated in the same way. This translation is described as the "default translation". To produce a translation that is different from the "default translation", right-click with the mouse within the segment and select "Create Alternative Translation". This segment can be now translated as desired without other instances of it automatically being made identical to it.
You can have as many "alternative translations" as you like of identical segments, but there can only be one default translation (or none at all).
To make an alternative translation the default translation, right-click with the mouse and select "Use as Default Translation". This will make the current translation the default translation. All other instances of the same segment that were previously the "default translation" will now be brought into line with this translation.
If you have already translated an instance of a non-unique segment and wish to make a different instance of the non-unique segment the default translation without changing the translation of the instance you have already translated, you must first set the status of the segment you have already translated to "alternative translation" using "Create Alternative Translation".
To remove the "alternative translation" status of a single segment and bring it back into line with the "default translation", simply delete the content of the segment. This has the effect of deleting the "alternative translation" status at the same time; the translation of the segment will therefore revert to that of the default translation. The content of a segment can be deleted completely either by means of the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+A > Ctrl+X > Enter, by right-clicking with the mouse and the Remove Translation menu item, or simply by using the delete key (repeatedly).
None (default behaviour): all identical segments are automatically translated the same way.
Mark Non-Unique Segments: identical segments are marked in grey (changes the display, but not the behaviour).
Create Alternative Translation: makes the segment unique. Changes to this segment have no effect upon other segments, nor do changes to the "default translation" affect it.
Remove Translation: deletes the content of the segment, causing (when Enter is pressed) the default translation to be inserted.
Use as Default Translation: causes the active segment to be made the default translation and therefore all previous "default translation" segments to be brought into line with it.
For some file types, OmegaT differentiates between identical segments by referring to their preceding and following segments. Creating an "alternative translation" therefore relies upon identical segments having different preceding or following segments. Where two segments also have identical preceding and following segments (for example when an entire page appears twice in the text), they cannot be translated differently from each other in OmegaT, i.e. it is not possible to make one of them an "alternative translation".
"Non-unique segment" covers both default and alternative translations. Consequently, segments that are marked (with the grey font) as being non-unique are marked as non-unique irrespective of whether alternative translations have been created or not.
By default, the Go To Next Untranslated Segment command (Ctrl+U) skips to the next untranslated segment, skipping propagated translations in the process. If Options > Editing Behaviour > "Go To Next Untranslated Segment stops when there is at least one alternative translation" is selected however and at least one alternative translation of a non-unique segment has been created, this function treats all instances of that segment (whether default or alternative translations) as untranslated, i.e. does not skip them.
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Rafael Montero threw six scoreless innings and matched a season-high with eight strikeouts as the Binghamton Mets topped the Portland Sea Dogs 5-0 Sunday night at NYSEG Stadium.
Montero had to work out of trouble in the first inning. After allowing a leadoff single to Shannon Wilkerson, Xander Bogaerts worked a full-count walk. A double steal put runners at second and third with nobody out, but Montero worked out of the jam. He forced Tony Thomas to foul out, struck out Travis Shaw, and got Michael Almanzar to ground out to end the threat. That began a stretch of nine-in-a-row retired by Montero.
In the bottom of the first, Josh Rodriguez reached first on an infield single up the middle against knuckleball pitcher Charlie Haeger. The next pitch hit Cesar Puello, putting the B-Mets in prime position to get the scoring started. Haeger uncorked a wild pitch to move the runners up to second and third, and then tossed another pitch past the catcher allowing Rodriguez to score the first run of the game.
The wild pitches continued to haunt Haeger in third inning. With runners at the corners and two outs, he threw one to the backstop that allowed Rodriguez to score for the second time in the game.
The 2-0 lead was plenty for Montero on the mound. He threw six shutout innings, and allowed four base hits as he kept Portland off the scoreboard for his fifth win of the season. He was relieved by Chase Huchingson, who threw two scoreless innings using just 16 pitches. The southpaw struck out two and faced only six hitters.
Allan Dykstra cushioned the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning by knocking his fourth home run of the season to lead off the inning. Two batters later, Darrell Ceciliani followed in Dykstra's footsteps by crushing a no-doubt round-tripper over the right field wall. The lead was plenty for Jack Leathersich, who threw a scoreless ninth inning to seal the victory.
The series finale between the B-Mets (28-22) and the Sea Dogs (28-20) is Monday afternoon. RHP Jacob deGrom takes the hill for Binghamton against Portland RHP Brandon Workman. First pitch is scheduled for1:05 PM, with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pregame Show starting at 12:50 PM on ESPN 1360 WYOS.
POSTGAME NOTES: Binghamton went 0-for-10 with RISP…This is the second shutout victory in 2013…Xorge Carrillo went 2-for-4, and got his first multi-hit game as a B-Met
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What better way to prepare American students for the globalized marketplace than to work with students from other countries to develop a business plan? Caroline Dobbins, '12, was one of eight students in Albion College's Carl A. Gerstacker Institute for Business and Management who had the chance to do that through a partnership between the institute and École supérieure de Vente (SDV), an international business school sponsored by the Versailles, France, Chamber of Commerce.
The Albion students traveled to St. Germain, France, with Vicki Baker, associate professor of economics and management, and Karen Erlandson, associate professor of communication studies, in January 2012 for a week of learning, work, and fun with students from the French school. During the week at SDV, bi-national teams were asked to develop a business plan that would incorporate resources and the culture of each country.
Students from SDV traveled to Albion the week of April 16 as the teams presented their business plans during the college's Elkin Isaac Student Research Symposium.
"We had the names [of the French students we would be working with], and we knew they were upper-class business students who were finishing their degrees," Dobbins said when asked about the amount of information she had going into the project.
"[The first meeting was spent] familiarizing ourselves with what was expected of us, what the end product was," Dobbins added. "We found out what needed to be done by the end of the week when we got there. It was unnerving at times, and the Americans struggled with the lack of structure of not knowing what we had to be responsible for. We like to check things off a list while they look more at the big picture, and they don't worry about the details as much. We did a good job of blending our styles, and everyone worked really well together."
Dobbins and Albion classmate Alex Pierson, '12, along with SDV students Nouara Chemaa, Antoine Corré, Nicolas Lavialle, and Benoit Smetko, were tasked with creating a plan for a business specializing in mobile automotive services, with car maintenance performed at the workplace preventing the loss of employee work time.
Plans developed by other teams include retailing a form of alternative energy that generates power from pedestrian foot traffic using flooring systems capable of capturing kinetic energy; providing depolluting plants to clients; and creating high-end entertainment that could feature light shows, pictures, and underwater music.
During the week in France, Dobbins said students attended a morning class with an English-speaking professor about the material that needed to be included in the business plan, leaving the afternoon for work time in the group and sightseeing in the evening.
Dobbins' group was able to complete the feasibility study in France, leaving general pieces of the business plan to be developed via e-mail messages or meetings via Skype. She said much of the additional work was completed on the weekend, meaning that for the months of January and February the team had to work around her activity with Albion's swimming and diving team.
"You have to manage eight different things at one time in real life, and this was a test in time management," Dobbins said. "I would let my teammates know that I would be gone for the weekend but that I would have access to e-mail, and they were understanding about it. They thought it was cool that we were so involved."
The partnership between Gerstacker and SDV is not confined to the classroom. With time allocated to seeing the Paris landmarks and dining at the French students' favorite restaurants, Dobbins said she gained an appreciation for the cultural differences after work.
"In France we were done working at 4 o'clock and we didn't talk about the project after work," Dobbins said. "The French are accustomed to eating dinner late. We were given time after school to freshen up before going out on the town and then we would eat. We are used to eating and then going out on the town."
The Gerstacker students returned the favor as SDV students were introduced to American culture by attending a performance by comedian Seth Myers, a tour of Comerica Park prior to a Detroit Tigers baseball game, and a two-day trip to Chicago.
Dobbins, who is pursuing a career in Internet marketing and social media, says the quality of Gerstacker students selected to participate in the partnership with SDV is what sets the international business experience apart from other programs that may be in existence.
"I feel proud that Albion has given us such an opportunity," Dobbins said. "Gerstacker selects individuals it feels will be great ambassadors for the College while in Paris and who are willing to go out of their comfort zone and try new things."


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Virgin coconut oil is perhaps the most important product derived from coconut as elixir – and now as anti-bacterial medicine.
This finding is based on the response of ten selected strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) on exposure for 24 hours to the minimum inhibitory concentration of GML, which is on the level of 250 micrograms per milliliter (ug/ml).
This is comparable to the effectiveness of anti-TB drugs (streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampicin, and ethamburol), and in fact, GML proved effective to one bacterial strain which is resistant to isoniazid.
The growth of seven confirmed M tubercolusis clinical strains isolated from sputa of TB cases was found to be inhibited by the same glycerol monolaurate concentration.
This result was presented by Jonathan Cabardo in his dissertation for a PhD degree in biological science at the University of Santo Tomas. His adviser is Dr Delia Ontengco, a well known microbiologist and professor at the UST Graduate School.
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"The various morphological changes observed in GML-exposed cells were absence or discontinuity of the outer layer of the cell, wide spaces between the cell membrane and the outer electron-dense layer of the cell envelop, suggesting the shrinking of the cell, vacant spaces within the cell, partial or complete loss of cellular components, burst cells that caused leaking out of the cellular materials into the medium, and plain cellular debris in the medium. Furthermore cell division was not apparent in GML-exposed cells."
The impressive results of the study give clear evidence that GML can kill the highly pathogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis, both drug susceptible and resistant strains. Isoniazid-resistant cells were also killed by GML, suggesting that GML is not affected by the mechanism that causes Mtb resistance to isoniazid, a primary drug for active tuberculosis.
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Assault on Precinct 13, the sluggish remake of John Carpenter's grungy 1976 movie of the same name, begins with a bang to which it never lives up. In a smoky den of all manner of iniquity, Ethan Hawke is trying to close a drug deal. With his girl splayed out on a dingy mattress, and with his hair shorn close to his sweaty skull, Hawke jive-talks a Russian into buying his smack. He has the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the junkie down cold -- a giddy, hysterical torrent of paranoid nonsense, which is stitched together by a jittery film editor with the attention span of a crank addict. The Russian, bored of Hawke's prattle, proves he's a no-shit sumbitch by slugging his own dog, again and again; Hawke responds by laughing and slugging his partner, to prove he, too, can smack a bitch up. The scene, which lasts but a couple of minutes, is frightening and funny -- tension demanding some kind of release. And then it comes, in the form of the inevitable shootout when the Russian recognizes Hawke's partner as a cop. A chase ensues, no backup arrives, and Hawke is left with a bullet in his leg and two dead cops to bury; the scene fades with their blood literally on his hands.
Then it's eight months later, and Hawke, identified as Sergeant Jake Roenick, has internalized his wound. Roenick looks like Ethan Hawke always does in the movies -- a wispy goatee on his chin that looks like chocolate-donut residue, unkempt hair grown out to alt-folkie length. You know he's tortured because the first thing he does after waking, and before rolling out of bed, is take a swig of the Johnnie Walker perched on his bedside table. In a blinding Detroit snowstorm, he drives to the ass-end of police work: babysitting a dying police building in the middle of nowhere. In 24 hours, as one year rolls into another, his precinct will be shut down and replaced by a shiny new one already open for business. All he has to do is pack away the few remaining files and artifacts, share a few drinks with Jasper O'Shea (Brian Dennehy) and Iris Ferry (Drea de Matteo) as the only remaining cops on duty, and disappear into the bureaucracy.
Of course, things don't go as planned. A police bus delivering four prisoners to the Big House, including John Leguizamo as a conspiracy-minded junkie and Ja Rule as a small-time hoodlum who refers to himself in the third person, is detoured to Precinct 13 because of the storm, and within moments the station is under siege. Turns out the attackers are bad cops out to capture and kill prisoner Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne), a bad-ass brother who refuses to share his profits with his old pals and partners on the dark side of the force. Their ringleader, revered cop Duvall (Gabriel Byrne, apparently from the Irish side of town), wants Bishop dead before he rats out the evildoers in the department; better to kill a few good cops, he figures, than let a criminal take down a whole bunch of bad ones.
This iteration, directed by unknown Jean-François Richet, has nothing on the Carpenter original, a terrifying last-man-standing ordeal rooted in something emotional, something tangible -- a father watching his little girl being murdered by gang members, exacting revenge, then being chased into a safe haven that turns out to be a death trap. The first thirty minutes of the original suck the audience into the ordeal. A crime shatters the deceitful calm, and, finally, a hail of bullets shatters the police station. The gangsters were nameless, faceless shadows reflected in the moonlight, an always-growing horde of multiculti LA ghetto zombies armed with shotguns and silencers crawling into shot-out windows and unlocked doors. They're out for revenge, aiming to kill the father who offed one of their own, but never do the good (and bad) guys inside know why. There is no communication between those inside and out, only an exchange of gunfire that lasts till the ammo runs out.
Richet's variation, during which more bullets are traded than lines of dialogue, aims to be loud, dumb fun, but it takes itself too seriously to offer anything approaching a good time. It labors as a tale of redemption: Will Jake, a sort of first cousin of Hawke's character in Training Day, keep it together long enough to stave off his attackers, or will he slip into a painkiller-and-booze daze and wind up among the corpses piling up inside and outside the precinct? Richet and screenwriter James DeMonaco (The Negotiator) even add a sort of love story by throwing in Maria Bello as the therapist with whom Jake hatefully flirts during their antagonistic sessions. She, too, winds up trapped in the station -- in a skimpy New Year's Eve party gown, no less, one better suited to the tropical climes of Miami than a snowbound Motor City.
Carpenter's movie ranks among the schlockmaster's masterpieces. It's Rio Bravo populated by nobodies, a climax spread over sixty harrowing minutes. Richet's cast of somebodies even in bit roles makes this feel like a B-grade Ocean's Eleven or a Love Boat episode. He can't even work up a decent thrill. Instead, he offers up shot after shot of famous faces with holes through their foreheads, lingering over their wounds like a porn director obsessing over the money shot. It's not terrifying. It's scarily stultifying.
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Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy:
'It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic — as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it would not be prolonged.' As if God said, 'Good; you have mastered that exercise. I am very pleased with it. And now you are ready to go on to the next.' When you have learned to do quadratics and enjoy doing them you will not be set them much longer. The teacher moves you on.
For we did learn and achieve something. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.' But also what poor, warped fragments of humanity most mere men and mere women must be to make the implications of that arrogance plausible. Marriage heals this. Jointly the two become fully human. 'In the image of God created He them.' Thus, by a paradox, this carnival of sexuality leads us out beyond our sexes.
From A Grief Observed
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed. Copyright © 1961 by N. W. Clerk, restored 1996 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Preface by Douglas H. Gresham copyright © 1994 by Douglas H. Gresham. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.


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To find a clearing relationship destined to click, broker-dealers must learn what makes each candidate tick. Easier said than done. Indeed, choosing the right clearing firm requires time, lots of due diligence, a finely tuned set of priorities and an eye to the future.
"It's more than just a phone call: 'Here's a list of our assets—what can you guys charge us?'" says Robb Combs, director of correspondent clearing at Raymond James & Associates inSt. Petersburg,Fla.
Whether you're a new BD just setting up or a firm seeking to change clearing partners, the idea is to think at least five years out since contracts are usually long-term.
"This is a little like getting married: It's for the long haul, and you should be very thoughtful about it," says Sanjiv Mirchandani, president of National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company and, with more than 260 BD clients, the industry's second-largest clearer.
The clearing firm should be financially stable, boast a strong balance sheet and be deeply commitment to the clearing business. Further, clearer and BD should have shared values and a similar culture.
Another consideration is partnering with a clearer that is a unit of a brokerage firm and thus highly familiar with the brokerage business and advisor needs. In that scenario, the same products and services provided to its FAs are likely to be available to clearing clients. "Such firms will take a full 360-degree view of the business today, where it's going and what is necessary to support it," says Craig Gordon, director of RBC Correspondent and Advisor Services, inMinneapolis, which has 175 clients.
Price per trade is important, of course; but it is not No.1 on the list simply because most clearers are competitive and have comparable pricing.
"If your selection is based on pricing, it's not going to be the best fit. It should be way down on the list—probably No. 5 or No. 6, or even deeper," says Jim Crowley, chief relationship officer of Pershing, based in Jersey City, N.J. With 1,500 clients, the BNY Mellon affiliate is the biggest clearing firm.
A premier clearing partner has a great deal to offer beyond clearing. "In this day and age, it's critically important for a brokerage to determine whether or not the clearing firm truly understands their business through their eyes, as opposed to simply providing a service. You need to go past vendor-processor into a partnership and growth-oriented relationship," notes William Coppel, managing director and chief growth officer of First Clearing, a St. Louis-based affiliate of Wells Fargo. First Clearing's clients number 88.
Outside of current capabilities, BDs need to get a good fix on what the clearing firm will be able to provide down the road. For instance, what if a BD's business model changes?
"If the clearing firm has just one selection of services for one type of broker-dealer, you may have to look for another partner" says Combs, whose firm has 42 clients. "You need a clearing firm that understands many different types of business models and can adapt to whatever might be needed in the future."
Typically, BDs submit to clearers a request for information (RFI), or taking it a step farther, a request for proposal (RFP) based on their specific needs. A consultant might be hired to help with this process.
RFPs ask pointed questions, like: What's your pricing? How do we integrate with your technology? How will you move our assets from one custodian to another? What kinds of products and services do you provide? Do you have fee-based programs? Financial planning tools? And then there are many more detailed questions concerning each of these aspects.
However, joining up with a clearer isn't based on a one-sided evaluation. "Clearing firms have become very selective in the firms they're doing business with," Gordon notes. "They represent revenue opportunities, but they also represent risks. Both sides are evaluating each other to see if it's the right fit."
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In assessing firms—and typically the choice will quickly narrow down from about four or five to two—it's critical to consider issues that are not on the "scorecard."
"You need to read between the lines and consider things that don't come through on a spreadsheet,"Crowleysays. "Really get a feel for what the people who run the clearing firm are like."
That means taking the time for a face-to-face visit.
"This is very important," says Mirchandani, who is based inBoston. "A picture is worth a thousand words—and a visit is worth a thousand PowerPoint presentations. Learn about the culture of the firm and the quality of the people who will be managing your relationship."
Adds Combs: "You really need to understand who you're working with—not just about the facility and location but who the management team is, who will be helping you and who at the [top of the] firm is really steering the ship."
A conscientious clearing firm will create a business plan with the BD to ensure that the clearer is aligned with the brokerage's goals and objectives "versus just having the firm plug into the standard offerings," Coppel notes.
There's no question that nowadays risk management is a heightened issue for BDs: general business risk, credit risk, operational risk, regulatory risk, compliance risk, reputational risk. How the clearing firm will help the brokerage manage risk is therefore critical.
"Start by looking at how the firm manages its own risk," Coppel says. "Second, determine how liberal it would be with its resources to support your firm's risk-management agenda."
Risk-management tools to monitor the BD's business are only part of the picture.
"If a smaller broker-dealer with a limited amount of net capital makes a mistake, it could cost them their business," Combs notes. "It's about helping them understand their business and what the potential downfall can be, then helping them with an active planning process."
Does the clearing firm have other clients like you—or not?
"That's a very clear indication as to whether it's a good fit with your principles and values, and what you're trying to do strategically," Crowley notes.
For growth-focused BDs, consider the extent of the clearing firm's financial resources that would help implement future strategies. This includes recruiting and training advisors, and introducing new platforms, such as managed investments.
"If a broker-dealer is planning to grow its business over time and recruit advisors from wirehouses," Gordon notes, "they're going to need the capabilities that those advisors have at the larger enterprises. That means aligning with a partner that has a comprehensive suite of capabilities in order to attract those advisors."
Scale matters, according toCrowley. "If a clearing firm can bring scale to a particular service, they can deliver it more efficiently to the broker-dealer. It's not just scale in execution, clearing and custody. It's scale in the peripheral things," such as offering a wide choice of third-party technology providers or the ability to deliver trade surveillance and sales practice surveillance technologies.
Size is a key factor, Mirchani says. "The size of the platform is important because that translates into the ability to provide technology and competitive pricing."
The best clearing firms consistently introduce innovative and improved products and services. For instance, RBC has a low-cost managed account solution, with the firm's own research group managing the portfolios. Later this year, Pershing will launch a new client portal with opportunities for customization. And National Financial is working on a state-of-the-art alternative investment platform that it expects to introduce by year's end.
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The clearing firm's ability to build and customize product to fit BDs' specific needs is another key element in this decision-making process.
"It's not just about offering a full menu of tools and systems," Combs says. "It's: Can you customize them? And once you customize them, how do you integrate them into [the BD's] operations? Do you help them? An additional level of service is what you should be looking for."
To that point, Mirchandani stresses: "The No. 1 pitfall in choosing a clearing firm is not paying enough attention to the importance of service. A commitment to service is what drives satisfaction. It's a very common pitfall to just look at price and technology and say, 'Okay, that's all we need to know'."
Placing too much emphasis on price is certainly misguided. "I've seen lots of firms make decisions that are penny-wise and pound-foolish," Gordon says. "If you base your decision around pricing and that leads you to providers that offer less service, fewer resources and less growth support, it might solve a need today; but when you go to grow your business in the future, you'll encounter problems."
Neglecting the way a change in clearers will have an impact on advisors and their clients is another place where BDs trip up.
"Broker-dealers think about it only from a middle office or home office perspective and not how the branch will be affected,"Crowleysays. "But all the dimensions of the relationship need to be considered."
Over many years, the chief mistake Gordon has seen is that BDs "focus on solving problems they had in the past without giving enough attention to making sure they're not creating new problems for the future."
In evaluating clearers, Mirchandani underscores: "It's not just about the present. It's about who is committed to getting to the future in the most efficient way."


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Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed it is "great" to be back -- as he returns with a vengeance on the big screen.
The 65-year-old, who spent a seven-year stint as governor of California, stars as Sheriff Ray Owens in action movie The Last Stand, which marks the Terminator star's first starring role in a decade since Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines in 2003.
"It's great to be back in acting. My experiences as a governor has added a little bit to my acting ability so it's good to be back," he said at the film's UK premiere in London.
Schwarzenegger was thrilled that crowds gathered for the red carpet event despite the freezing temperatures.
"It's always nice when you see so many people in the freezing cold. People stay out here for hours and hours. That's how dedicated my fans are and I love them," he said.
His co-star Jaimie Alexander braved the cold in a sleeveless cream jewelled Marc Bouwer dress with plunging neckline and Nicholas Kirkwood snakeskin heels.
She relished the opportunity to work with Schwarzenegger.
"I grew up loving his movies, which I used to watch with my brothers. So when I knew he was going to be a part of this, I thought, 'I have to do this'," she said.
Johnny Knoxville, best known for his comedic turns in the Jackass series and films, said: "It was very surreal. I was pinching myself all the way through."
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A man who robbed a St. Augustine bank last Friday was arrested in connection with a bank robbery in South Carolina on Wednesday, according to the St. Augustine Police Department.
Police said 55-year-old Craig Ozarowski was arrested in Mount Pleasant, S.C.
They said after sending out a nationwide alert for the man who robbed a Wells Fargo bank on Cathedral place, the Mount Pleasant police took the photos from the St. Augustine robbery and matched them to Ozarowski.
In both photos, Ozarowski was wearing the same jacket, police said, adding that found in his hotel room were white tennis shoes similar to ones worn in the St. Augustine bank robbery.
Ozarowski absconded from probation a couple of months back and has committed nine armed robberies in the last three weeks, police said.
Since 1975, he has been arrested on 14 felonies, many of them on armed robbery charges. He also served time in the federal prison system for robbery.


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Enjoy this Rosh Hashanah 2011 inspiration…
Thanks Lorene for another stunning holiday table setting! I love your tropical greens, reds and oranges! Those colors make me so happy and in the mood yet to eat ANOTHER holiday meal!!!
These festive colors and easy runner idea is also great for a Sukkot table!
Shana Tova!! Marlene
Hey Marlene,
Shana Tova!
I did the first night by me and it was just a few of us. My kids colored little Shofar name cards, and because I love the colors of the dates,apples and poms I had to make a centerpiece with them. Here's my table! Enjoy!
from Lorene Sasson
p.s. The green runner is actually a sheer window panel from Ikea. And the plates are from Amazing Savings!
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Regia Montreal Socks
by exercisebeforeknitting
Another FO!! Well, I've been working on these for the last two weeks so it's not as if I turned these babies out in the last day or two.
I love the feet but I really hate the ribbing. Ugh. It's a good thing my pant legs will cover that up! Stacey noted that the reason the Jaywalker pattern took off was because good patterns for self-striping yarn are so hard to find. I totally agree. Ribbing and self-striping do not work well together, as you can see below.
This brings me to another issue. For those of you that knit socks without a ribbed leg, how do your socks stay up??? I have to have a ribbed leg or a pattern that functions the way ribbing does in order to keep my socks up. ESPECIALLY with sock yarn. Heavier yarn helps stand the sock up. What do you sock experts say? Is there a secret? I see knitters knitting stockinette socks with a few inches of ribbing and I just wonder if those socks are worn bunched around the ankles.
Speaking of socks, there is a new pair on my needles. Another pair of Cable Twist Socks because I liked knitting the first pair so much! I think I'll send these to my aunt. The yarn is Knit Picks Swish Superwash in Baby Blue from my latest stash expansion. I've been wearing the white pair a lot these days because of the extremely cold days we've had and I *love* them. I need pairs in all colors!!


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Sometimes the life of a blogger is fraught with tedium and annoyance. It can also be touched simultaneously by profound sadness. I've been steeping in a brew concocted from these ingredients, perusing the 1518-page "2083" manifesto of the Norwegian mass murderer so you don't have to.
As My Pet Jawa reports, parts of "2083" were copied from the Unabomber's manifesto. But that gives a very incomplete impression of what makes this guy tick. The overarching theme of "2083" is that he, and his confreres in the "PCCTS Knights Templar," are modern-day Crusaders. They are not what most other Christians would call Christian; Anders is very explicit that having a relationship with Jesus Christ is not his thing. He's a "cultural" Christian, and the PCCTS Knights Templar (expansion of PCCTS below) are happy to accept members who are, in Breivik's words, "Christian agnostics" and "Christian atheists." He uses "Christian" as a modifier signifying primarily Western/European cultural identity; he does speak of brotherhood with African and Asian Christians, but the context of the references is clearly cultural. Tellingly, there is not one reference in "2083" to the power of spiritual Christianity deriving from the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ. For spiritual Christians, that's the bottom line. It's what you say, what you talk about, your confession of faith. Breivik doesn't allude to it at all. Again, it's not his thing. He doesn't think of Christianity as transforming hearts and lives for the better. He thinks of it as a positive, unifying symbol-set, one that evokes the energy, reason, and strength of the traditional culture of Europe.
Here are his words:
3.139 Distinguishing between cultural Christendom and religious Christendom – reforming our suicidal Church
A majority of so called agnostics and atheists in Europe are cultural conservative Christians without even knowing it. So what is the difference between cultural Christians and religious Christians?
If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us Christian. (p. 1307)
And this:
I'm not going to pretend I'm a very religious person as that would be a lie. I've always been very pragmatic and influenced by my secular surroundings and environment. In the past, I remember I used to think;
"Religion is a crutch for weak people. What is the point in believing in a higher power if you have confidence in yourself!? Pathetic."
Perhaps this is true for many cases. Religion is a crutch for many weak people and many embrace religion for self serving reasons as a source for drawing mental strength (to feed their weak emotional state f example during illness, death, poverty etc.). Since I am not a hypocrite, I'll say directly that this is my agenda as well. However, I have not yet felt the need to ask God for strength, yet… (p. 1344)
And this:
If you want to fight for the cross and die under the "cross of the martyrs" it's required that you are a practising Christian, a Christian agnostic or a Christian atheist (cultural Christian). The cultural factors are more important than your personal relationship with God, Jesus or the holy spirit.
Choosing to fight under the banner of the cross, does not constitute that you have to reject your Odinistic heritage in any way or form.
As a cultural Christian, I believe Christendom is essential for cultural reasons.
As this is a cultural war, our definition of being a Christian does not necessarily constitute that you are required to have a personal relationship with God or Jesus. Being a Christian can mean many things;
- That you believe in and want to protect Europe's Christian cultural heritage.
The European cultural heritage, our norms (moral codes and social structures included), our traditions and our modern political systems are based on Christianity – Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and the legacy of the European enlightenment (reason is the primary source and legitimacy for authority).
It is not required that you have a personal relationship with God or Jesus in order to fight for our Christian cultural heritage and the European way. In many ways, our modern societies and European secularism is a result of European Christendom and the enlightenment. It is therefore essential to understand the difference between a "Christian fundamentalist theocracy" (everything we do not want) and a secular European society based on our Christian cultural heritage (what we do want).
So no, you don't need to have a personal relationship with God or Jesus to fight for our Christian cultural heritage. It is enough that you are a Christian-agnostic or a Christian atheist (an atheist who wants to preserve at least the basics of the European Christian cultural legacy (Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter)).
The PCCTS, Knights Templar is therefore not a religious organisation but rather a Christian "culturalist" military order.
(C)reating a religious order would be counter-productive as a majority of Europe's armed resistance fighters are agnostics, atheists or relatively secular Christians. The organisation is therefore considered a moderate Christian identity organisation and not a religious order. (p. 1360-on)
Predictably, Breivik invokes the Nietzschean complaint that Christianity is too weak and self-effacing for its own good:
The Judeo-Christian religions played an important and influential role in building the once mighty West but we also discovered that these religions contained a serious flaw that has sewed the seeds of the suicidal demise of the indigenous peoples of Western Europe and our cultures. This flaw was identified by the brilliant German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who described it as "an inversion of morality" whereby the weak, the poor, the meek, the oppressed and the wretched are virtuous and blessed by God whereas the strong, the wealthy, the noble and the powerful are the immoral and damned by the vengeful almighty Yahweh for eternity.
Nietzsche, with great insight and perception, stated that Christianity would be abandoned en masse in the twentieth century but that Westerners would still cling to this inversion of morality. I then described how Marxists and Liberals exploit this inversion of morality by creating large numbers of "victim groups", groups who form minorities in Western society but whose "victim status" is used to dictate morality to the majority. In Western – European – societies, the weak now lead the strong, indeed, the game being played in these societies is not to make the weak strong it is to make the strong weak. (p. 391)
But he despises National Socialists (referred to by the initials NS throughout the text) and has only negative things to say about Hitler. In fact, Breivik devotes pages to arguing against the Nazi perspective on cultural unity and power. Breivik's unifying idea and symbology are the Crusades and the Knights Templar. What he wants Christian Europe (and indeed, all Christendom) to get back to is his concept of the church militant in the Crusades era: a church that forms the cultural core of society and motivates the people to – if you will – defend Christianity forward. His plan for a revitalized cultural-Christian Europe involves reclaiming Lebanon for Christianity (yes, this figures very large in the manifesto), supporting Christians in Africa and Asia in driving Muslims and cultural relativists out of their lands, and helping Israeli Jews build the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
All his concepts are political and militant. He advocates holding a "Great Christian Congress" (p. 1136) at which the new Knights Templar-based authorities of Europe reorganize the church for its own good. Protestantism has been an unmitigated disaster, and needs to be winnowed out. (Breivik was baptized a Protestant but admires the political history, ritual, organization, and aesthetics of the Catholic Church.) The church will be assigned in his restored cultural order to a number of tasks, and given some important powers, but one thing it will not have is the autonomy to evolve away from his militant ideal for it.
The PCCTS Knights Templar are named after the original Knights Templar: the "Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici," or Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon. An anonymous group of Europeans met in London in 2002 to re-found the order, and Breivik was present at the creation. Its program for reclaiming Europe and the world is oriented on the year 2083, presumably because that year will mark the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Vienna.
And it is a warlike program, to say the least. Cultural Marxists (e.g., the people he killed in the government offices), along with Muslims, will be given an ultimatum to embrace cultural Christianity by 1 January 2020, or be killed or driven out. In the aftermath of the ultimatum, WMD will be used on them. Breivik devotes pages of text to various methods of acquiring chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons: from the existing governments of Europe, from crime syndicates, directly from Islamist states and terrorist groups (because why not?).
He justifies this bloodthirsty program on the basis of the indulgences granted to "all future Crusaders" by Pope Urban II in 1095; on the "duty to crusade" which he reads into the church's canon law; and on the calls of subsequent popes to mount new crusades. (p. 1324)
Have I mentioned that Breivik is an avid player of World of Warcraft? He reports taking an entire year off from paid employment to play it full time. In this and other ways he is very much a product of modern Western culture – and that is where the profound sadness comes in. He has reached the age of 32 with an obvious sense of rootlessness, a set of grievances against society (some of them justified), and no spiritual or emotional defenses against resorting to a kinetic Manichaeism in his approach to politics and life. Here is part of his account of his teenage years in Oslo:
We used to hang out with GSV crew, or B-Gjengen as they are popularly called today, a Muslim Pakistani gang, quite violent even back then. "Gang alliances" was a part of our everyday life at that point and assured that you avoided threats and harassment. Alliances with the right people guaranteed safe passage everywhere without the risk of being subdued and robbed (Jizya), beaten or harassed. We had close ties with B-Gjengen (B-Gang) and A-Gjengen (A-Gang), both Muslim Pakistani gangs through my best friend Arsalan who was also a Pakistani. Even at that time, the Muslim gangs were very dominating in Oslo East and in inner city Oslo. They even arranged "raids" in Oslo West occasionally, subduing the native youths (kuffars) and collecting Jizya from them (in the form of cell phones, cash, sunglasses etc.). I remember they systematically harassed, robbed and beat ethnic Norwegian youngsters who were unfortunate enough to not have the right affiliations. Muslim youths called the ethnic Norwegians "poteter" (potatoes, a derogatory term used by Muslims to describe ethnic Norwegians). These people occasionally raped the so called "potato whores". In Oslo, as an ethnic Norwegian youth aged 14-18 you were restricted if you didn't have affiliations to the Muslim gangs. Your travel was restricted to your own neighbourhoods in Oslo West and certain central points in the city. Unless you had Muslim contacts you could easily be subject to harassment, beatings and robbery. Our alliances with the Muslim gangs were strictly seen as a necessity for us, at least for me. We, however, due to our alliances had the freedom of movement. As a result of our alliances we were allowed to have a relaxing and secure position on the West side of Oslo among our age group. Think of it as being local "warlords" for certain "kuffar areas", which were regulated by the only dominant force, Muslim gangs collaberating with anarcho-Marxist networks.
Many of these groups claim to be tolerant and anti-fascist, but yet, I have never met anyone as hypocritical, racist and fascist as the people whom I used to call friends and allies. The media glorifies them while they wreck havoc across the city, rob and plunder. Yet, any attempts their victims do to consolidate are harshly condemned by all aspects of the cultural establishment as racism and Nazism. I have witnessed the double standards and hypocrisy with my own eyes, it is hard to ignore. I was one of the protected "potatoes", having friends and allies in the Jihadi-racist gangs such as the A and B gang and many other Muslim gangs.
I gradually became appalled by the mentality, actions and hypocrisy of what he calls the "Marxist-Jihadi youth" movement of Oslo disguised under more socially acceptable brands such as: "SOS Rasisme", "Youth against Racism", Blitz who literally hijacked segments of the hiphop movement and used it as a front for recruitment.
I have personally heard of and witnessed hundreds of Jihadi-racist attacks, more than 90% of them aimed at helpless Norwegian youth (who themselves are brought up to be "suicidally" tolerant and therefore are completely unprepared mentally for attacks such as these). This happens while the Marxist networks in the hiphop movement and the cultural establishment silently and indirectly condone it. There is absolutely no political will to ensure that justice is served on behalf of these victims. I remember at one point thinking; "This system makes me sick". (p. 1389)
Breivik's complaint is that what he was supposed to believe in – who he was supposed to be, as a member of a culture – offered him no protection, safety, or dignity. He goes on to recount, one by one, the occasions on which he was directly attacked or threatened in the years after he broke with his "gang alliances" (starting on p. 1393). He also observes, matter-of-factly, that a natural-selection process kicked in after the mid-teenage years, when students are channeled into academic or technical/trades education. The Muslim teens almost all went into vocational training (or left school entirely), which meant they and the ethnic Norwegians were no longer in the same schools, and no longer had to meet in the same neighborhoods.
The void where the reasons for cultural unity should be is a real source of sorrow here, at least for me. Breivik blames it, in effect, on "cultural Marxism" (his cultural commentary is all derivative): the process of tearing down the traditional shibboleths of a culture in order to leave populations mentally defenseless against collectivism. And this isn't invalid, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. The problem for Europe isn't so much what it no longer is, as that there is no compelling vision for what it ought to be.
That is most clearly apparent in the video Breivik posted to explain the "2083" concept. One of the first things that struck me in watching the video was that it seemed curiously American in tone. Breivik's imagery for depicting the downfall of Europe includes thematic "traffic signs," which of course are a universal phenomenon, but also shows the boy "Billy" from the Family Circus car


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SPGPrints Shows Off its Archer Technology in Singlepass & New Multipass Textile Printers
 Mar 24, 2016
A select number of potential customers from all over the world were invited to visit the SPGPrints factory in Boxmeer, Holland on a day trip out during FESPA Digital 2016 to see the singlepass PIKE up close. In addition, previews of the new Javelin multipass device were also given inducing much interest from the international group of printing companies. The factory tour also showed how the company that is also largely an ink manufacturer, has now completed its third phase of expansion, doubling its production space.
PIKE's Archer Ink Jetting Technology Extends to Multipass Javelin
Following its official launch at ITMA 2015 and announcements preceding, (SPGPrints Gives 'Sneak Preview' of New Single-Pass Printing Solution) SPGPrints' 1.85m single pass textile machine and a preview of the multipass Javelin were shown in action, up close and personal to the group of printing customers from Brazil, Columbia, Greece, India, Israel, and Pakistan among others, enabling insightful questions to be asked about their ability to perform high speed textile printing cost effectively. The PIKE's 'Archer' ink conditioning and delivery system used in conjunction with the Fujifilm Dimatix Samba printheads is also being used in the new multipass Javelin with the same jetting distance to fabric expected to be achieved by launch in the summer of 2016.
In the PIKE the Archer Printbar jets ink up to 4mm from the fabric (as opposed to the usual 1.5mm), which helps to reduce 'headstrike' with the fabric and reduce what is described as the 'printhead headache' of costly print head damage and machine downtime. Linked to this a 2.5 year printhead warranty is offered which could even extend beyond this timeframe once customer experience is gained. The Archer name is taken from the Archerfish found in estuaries and mangroves of Australasia that forms a narrow groove in its mouth to jet out a long spurt of water to capture insects some distance away.
SPGPrints' PIKE Singlepass in action at the customer demo day
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The Northeast Conference has announced the all-conference selections for indoor and outdoor track and field. With the 2014 Men's Outdoor Champion Blue Devils earning an impressive 12 All-NEC selections during the outdoor campaign to go along with nine honorees from the indoor season. In addition, head coach Eric Blake and his staff were named NEC Coach/Coaching Staff of the Year for men's outdoor track.
During the indoor season the Blue Devils earned nine spots with four coming on the first team, one on the second and four on the all-rookie team.
Junior Jamal Fruster (400m), senior Brian Biekert (Mile), senior Craig Hunt (5,000m) and the distance medley relay (Patrick Hubbell, Chris Savidou, Thomas Luppoli, Brian Biekert) team all captured gold at the indoor meet and First Team All-NEC honors as a result of their victories.
Hunt also collected a second team nod by finishing second in the 3,000 meter run.
Freshmen Kendall Walker (60m), Thomas Lupoli (800m), Derek French (Mile) and Tyler Raymond (5,000m) each earned NEC All-Rookie honors as the top freshman finisher in their respective events.
On the way to a first NEC Outdoor Track and Field title, the Blue Devils collected 12 all-conference nods, including five first team, four second team and three all-rookie.
Biekert and Hunt each collected a pair of First Team All-NEC selections by virtue of winning two events. Biekert won the 1,500 meters and the steeple chase, while Hunt captured the 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter. Junior Jamal Fruster earned First Team All-NEC honors by winning the 400 meters.
Three Blue Devils combined for four second team spots by finishing second in events. Junior Patrick Hubbell earned silver in the 1,500 meters and junior Jordan Watkins placed second in the 110 meter hurdles. Junior Matt Walker collected a pair of second team honors as he placed second in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter events.
Freshman Colin Sauter collected a pair of NEC All-Rookie honors as the top freshman in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter runs. Freshman Brendan Callahan also earned all-rookie honors in the steeple chase.
First Team
400m - Jamal Fruster, Jr. - 48.98
Mile - Brian Biekert, Jr. - 4:17.04
5000m - Craig Hunt, Sr. - 14:44.57
Second Team
3000m - Craig Hunt, Sr. - 8:31.47
60m - Kendall Walker, Fr. - 7.14
800m - Thomas Lupoli, Fr. - 1:57.30
Mile - Derek French, Fr. - 4:31.11
5000m - Tyler Raymond, Fr. - 15:11.62
First Team
400m -Jamal Fruster, Jr. - 47.36
1500m - Brian Biekert, Jr. - 4:01.98
5000m - Craig Hunt, Sr. - 14:55.09
10000m - Craig Hunt, Sr. - 33:10.59
Steeple Chase - Brian Biekert, Jr. - 9:22.40
Second Team
1500m - Patrick Hubbell, Jr. - 4:02.43
5000m - Matt Walker, Jr. - 14:56.17
10000m - Matt Walker, Jr. - 33:10.81
110H - Jordan Watkins, Jr. - 14.52
5000m - Colin Sauter, Fr. - 15:17.91
10000m - Colin Sauter, Fr. - 33:42.57
Steeple Chase - Brendan Callahan, Fr. - 9:51.18